Loudon News

Loudon City Council on Monday found it necessary to proceed with a budget for 2013 without a certified tax rate.

Although the Tennessee Department of Labor recently announced it was "restructuring" the career center program and consolidating some county offices, Lenoir City Career Center will still offer Workforce Investment Act and job consulting services through the East Tennessee Human Resources Agency.

Loudon County officials have estimated that the certified property tax rate could see an increase in the next fiscal year to compensate for a historic decrease in assessed property values during the latest four-year reappraisal.

Hundreds of bins and boxes of bagged food items - rice, pasta, canned goods and meats - filled the loading dock area shoulder high, lined pantry walls and spilled over into the kitchen area Monday at the Good Samaritan Center in Lenoir City.

Legislators representing Loudon County will go back to the drawing board to work on changes in real estate law that could affect the disposition of tax-delinquent properties across the state.

What's 502 miles long, winds through nearly 90 towns in five states and offers junkers and collectors a paradise trove of treasures? The U.S. 11 Antique Alley & Yard Sale, which takes place in May the weekend after Mother's Day each year, will be held May 16-19. Yard sale signs are going up in the county and merchants are gearing up for the event, ... (more)

A Loudon house once used for making meth was put on the market recently. But is it, or any meth house, a home you'd want to buy? A Loudon house once used for making meth was put on the market recently.

Chattanooga athletic director David Blackburn hasn't been around as much as he'd have liked to in his first weeks on the job.

The Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals awarded DuPont with its 2013 Bioeconomy Leadership Award for the company's pioneering work in renewably sourced materials and fuels.

The eighth annual plein-air art event, exhibit and sale sponsored by the Knoxville Museum of Art guild is Friday and Saturday, May 10 and 11.

DUPONT WINS BIOECONOMY LEADERSHIP AWARD May 3, 2013 Source: DuPont news release The Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals , today awarded DuPont with its 2013 Bioeconomy Leadership Award.

Using a model similar to the Cumberland Region Tomorrow collaborative effort of city and county officials in the Nashville area, Plan East Tennessee developers are working to highlight some of the strong commonalities among the region's five counties as part of an effort to further enhance quality of life and draw newcomers.

More than 250 county residents and 1,700 other residents across the region who depend on East Tennessee Human Resources Agency transportation services could be negatively impacted by new federal funding regulations that would not allow ETHRA to offer affordable trips to certain parts of Lenoir City and the city of Loudon.

It now appears that Loudon sludge more likely will be taken to the Matlock Bend Landfill rather than to the McMinn County Landfill in Athens, Loudon Utility Board members learned Monday.